Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. Rowan Williams More Quotes by Rowan Williams More Quotes From Rowan Williams The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. Rowan Williams bills taken answers St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. Rowan Williams second-chance community christian In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. Rowan Williams fog trust hands One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. Rowan Williams media powerful action We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die. Rowan Williams support government people It's a moral question. Rowan Williams climate-change moral Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die. Rowan Williams real attitude talking Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation. Rowan Williams new-year real years In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. Rowan Williams spiritual age culture In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. Rowan Williams encounters god kindness In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. Rowan Williams anxiety simple ideas My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. Rowan Williams autumn rome opportunity The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't. Rowan Williams suffering would-be believe It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please. Rowan Williams what-matters christian doe I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. Rowan Williams church running long Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. Rowan Williams poverty littles average A public is a necessary fiction. Rowan Williams fiction Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. Rowan Williams forums discourse numbers I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith. Rowan Williams interest christian thinking Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. Rowan Williams cutting mistake thinking
